Richard Heck wrote:
> All you need to do is produce something similar for IPA. Probably for
> IPA you would use unicode-insert, followed by the codepoint. E.g.:
> unicode-insert 0x0251
> gets you: ɑ.
Something like this can be done inside the new IPA inset (and indeed also
inside the old math-tipa with 2.0). However, currently the output will be
flawed with this method (same as if your insert unicode IPA symbols outside
the inset, with the improvement that the ascii glyphs will be taken from the
IPA font not the main text font). You'll get something like
\textipa{\textepsilon{}kspl\textschwa{}ne\textsci{}\textesh{}\textschwa{}n}
which is not only hardly readable (due to the macros), but also the kerning is
broken by the {} which are appended after each macro.
I plan to convert the unicode glyphs to TIPA shortcut notation inside the IPA
inset (in latex output), i.e. you'll get for the above
\textipa{Ekspl@neIS@n}
Vice versa, this shortcut notation will be converted to unicode for text and
XHTML output.
As for the toolbar, the plan is to display it automatically when the cursor is
inside the IPA inset. Carlos, if you can provide icons for the IPA symbols
(similar to the icons you'll find in lib/images/math), it would help a lot.
I'll be utterly short of time during the next months.
Jürgen
